"Yes," his auditors answered.
"But," Don Miguel added, "I suppose that you will not go alone with Don Mariano?"
"No; I shall also take Domingo, who, for certain reasons known to myself, I shall not be sorry to have constantly under my hand. Don Mariano's two servants will also follow me; they are brave and devoted. I need no more people."
"They are very few," Don Leo remarked.
The old hunter smiled in a peculiar way. "The less We are, the better it will be," he said, "for the dangerous enterprise we meditate; our little band will pass invisible, where a larger party would be stopped; trust to me for that."
"I have one more word to add."
"Say it."
"Succeed!"
The Canadian smiled again, but this time with an expression of tender pity. "I shall succeed," he answered, simply, as he forcibly pressed the hand his friend offered him.
The two men understood one another. Don Leo then left the tent.